NLPC's Horowitz is Expert on American Greed's 'Mob Money'

National Legal & Policy Center ^ | June 23, 2010 | Peter Flaherty

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Video trailers.

Dr. Carl Horowitz, director of NLPC’s Organized Labor Accountability Project, is a featured expert on CNBC’s “Mob Money,” a special presentation of “American Greed,” narrated by Stacy Keach. The program premieres tonight at 9PM ET.

I’ve previewed an advance copy of the program and it lives up to its billing. The show performs a real public service by highlighting the relationship between corrupt labor unions and organized crime.

Carl provides commentary as the publisher of our newsletter Union Corruption Update, published on line and twice monthly in print. Carl even appears in the trailers for the program, which can be viewed above.

According to CNBC, the program:

… takes viewers inside the inner-workings of a mob family. From loan-sharking and labor racketeering to illegal gambling and murder for hire to its recent invasion into Wall Street it’s all part of the life and death business of organized crime.

The one-hour program chronicles the rise and fall of the DeCavalcante Family—a smaller family operating quietly west of the Hudson River and based in Elizabeth, NJ. Growing in the shadows of the powerful “Five Families” of New York City, the DeCavalcante’s were known by the derogatory term “Farmers” because of their Garden State roots, but they were just as deadly as their New York cousins. This Family’s story bears many similarities to the HBO hit series, “The Sopranos.” Viewers will see how this Family matures, becomes successful…and then eventually, bows to its weakness, bringing the Family down, crumbling to its knees.

“Mob Money” will re-air on Wednesday, June 23rd at 10PM ET/PT, Saturday, June 26th at 8PM & 11PM ET and Sunday, June 27th at 12AM ET.

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